Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-31

boy and went along with him. coulC
swear like an old salt. / could gamble il
every style of gambling. l knew all th,
wickedDess there was at that time abroad
One day my father cleared everybody Ou
of the cabin except myself, and locked the
door. He said: David, what are you 90
ing to do? What are you going to be?
We'll, said, father, am going to fol
low the sea- Follow the sea! and be :
poor, miserable, drunken sailor, kicked
and cuffed about the world and die of
fever in a foreign hOSpital?' oh, no.
said, father, Twill not lie that; will tread
the quarterback and command, as YOU do.
No David, my father said; no, David, s
person that has your principles and youl
bad habits will never tread the quarter
deck or command My father went out
and shut the door after him, and said
then: I will change, l will never swear
again. and, gentlemen, by the help o.
God / have kept those three vows to this
time. soon after that became Christian
and that decided my fate for time and fol
eternity"
ANOTHER CAPTIVE
of this great Christian delusion! There
goes Saul of Tarsus on horseback at tul
gallop Where is he going? To destroy
Christians. He wants no better play-spel
than to stand and watch the hats and coat.
of the murdcrers who arc massacreing God.
children. There goes the same man. Thi.
time he is afoOt. Where is going now;
Going on the road to Oatia to die fol
Christ. They tried to whip it out of him
they tried to scarce it out of him, they
thought they would give him enough of il
by putting him into windowles:
dungeon, and keeping him on small
diet, and denying him cloak, and
condemning him as criminal, and
bowling at him through the streets; but
they could not freeze it out of him, and
they could not sweat it out of him, and
they could not pound it out OF him, sc
they tried the surgery OF the sword, and
one summer day i'll 50 he was deCapitated
Perhaps the mightieSt intellect of the
&, 600 years of the worlds existence hood.
winked, cheated, cai6led, duped by the
Christian religion. All that is the re,
markable thing about this delusion o
Christianity, it OverpOwers the strongest
intellects Gather the critics, secular and
religious, OF this century together and put
a vote to them rs to which is the greatest
book ever written, and by large majority
they will say Paradise Lost Who
wrote Paradise LOst?'
ONE OF THE FOOLS
who believed in this Bible, John Milton,
Benjamin Franklin surrendered to this
delusiOn, ifyOu may Judge from the letter
that he wrote to Thomas Paine begging
him to destroy the Age Of Reason" in
manuscript and never let it 90 into type,
and writing alterward, in his old days
"Of this Jesus in Nazareth | have to say
that the system of morals He left, and the
religion He has given us are the best
things the world has ever seen or is likely
to see. Patrick Henry, the electric cham,
pion of liberty, enslaved by this dclusi0n,
so that he says: THE book worth al 9th,
or books put together is the Bible" Ben.
iamin Rush, the leading psychologist and
anatomist of his day, the great medical
scicntist-what did he say? The only
true and perfect religion is Christianity
Isaac Newton, the leading philosopher o
his time-what did he say? That man sur
rendering To this dclusOn of the Christian
religion, crying out "Thc sublimcS
philosophy on earth is the philosophy O
the Gospel David Brewster, at the pro
nunciation OF whose name every scientist
the world .Nver bows his head, David
Brewster saying:
so, this religion has been 4 great light
% i,ht 20 Il
President Theirs, the great French states
nan, acknowledging that he prayed when
he said: Il invoked the Lord God in
whom am glad to believe" Dave Liv.
ingStOne, able to conquer the lion, able TO
conquer the panther, able To conquer the
savage, yet conquered by this delusion,
this hallucinatiOn, this great swindle Oi
the ages, so when they find him dead they
find him on his knees William T.. Glad.
stone, the strongest intellect i'll England
to-day, unable TO resist chlmera, this fdl-
lacy, this deuSiOn of the Christian relig,
ion, goes to the house of God every Sab.
bath, and often, at the invitation Of the
rector, reads the prayers to the people. O,
il those mighty intellectS are OverhOrnc by
this deluSiOn, what chance are they for
you and for me:
Beside that, have noticed that
FIRST RATE INFInEIs CANNOT DE DE
PENDED on
for steadtaStness in the proclamation OF
their sentiments. Goethe, n leading skep-
tic, was so wrought upon by this Chris
tianity that in weak moment he cried
ont: "My belief in the Bible has saved
me in my literary and moral life" Rous-
seau, one of the most eloquent champions
of infdelity, spending his whole life
warning against Christianity, cries out:
The majesty of the Scriptures amazes
me-" AltamOnt, the notorious iniidel
one would think he would have been safe
against this delusi0n of the Christian re-
ligion. q, no! After talking against
Christianity all his days, in his last hours
ke cried out: ''0h, Thou blasphemed but
most indulgent Lord God, hell itself is a
refuge if it hide me from Thy frOwn. "
Noltaire the most talented infdel the
world ever saw, writing two hundred and
fifty publications, and the most OF
them spiteful against Christianity, himself
the most notorious libertine Of the cen
tury-One would have thought he could
have been depended upon for steadiastness
in the advocacy of infdelity and in the
war against this terrible chimera, this de-
lusiOn of the Gospel. But no; in his last
hour he asks for Christian burial, and
asks that they give him the sacrament Of
the Lord Jesus Christ Why, You cannot
depend upon these first-rate inidels-yOu
cannot depend upon their power to resist
this great delusion OF Christianity. Thomas
Paine, the god of modern skeptics, his
birthday celebrated in New York and Bos-
ton with great nthusiasm-Thomas Paine,
the paragon of Bible haters-Thomas
Paine, about whom his brother infidel,
William Carver, wrote in letter which
have at my house, saying that he
drank q quart of rum day and
was too mean and too dishonest
to pay for it-Thomas Paine, the adored
of modern nfidelity-Thomas Paine, who
stole another mans wife in England and
brought her to this land-Thomas Paine,
who was so squalid and so loathsOme and
so drunken and so prolieate aud 80 beastly
in his habits, sometimes picked ont Of the
ditch, sometimes too filthy to be picked
out-Thomas Paine, one would have
thought that he could have been depended
on for steadiastness against this great de-
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